KJNP-TV,

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4 (

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channel 20), is a TBN- affiliated

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serving

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, United States that is

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. Owned by the Evangelistic Alaska Missionary Fellowship, it is

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to radio stations KJNP (1170 AM) and

KJNP-FM KJNP-FM (100.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve North Pole, Alaska. The station is owned by Evangelistic Alaska Missionary Fellowship. It airs a Religious radio format. KJNP-FM was founded by Don & Gen Nelson. The station was assigned th ...

(100.3). The three stations share studios near Mission Road on the northeast side of North Pole; KJNP-TV's transmitter is located on the Ester Dome.

History

Signing on on December 7, 1981, and becoming a TBN affiliate in 1990 (and its only full-power affiliate in Alaska), KJNP-TV became the fourth television station in the

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area after KUAC. Originally broadcasting 16 hours a day, the schedule expanded to 24 hours a day in 2003, following the installation of a new transmitter. KJNP-TV and KJNP-AM-FM (which launched in 1967) were founded by Don and Gen Nelson. In addition to TBN and other programs, KJNP-TV also broadcasts ''Closing Comments'', one of the longest-running public affairs programs on local television.

Digital television

Digital channel

Analog-to-digital conversion

KJNP-TV shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 4, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition

channel 20. Through the use of

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, digital television receivers display the station's

as its former VHF analog channel 4.

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